[Coco] Y2K fixes ever developed or posted?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:26, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Of the ones I played with, the dallas semi and the mm6242, neither
>> of these clocks can handle the rollover at 99>100.  The dallas
>> semi used in the B&B XT-RTC did take the rollover, but then failed
>> on the next minute IIRC, apparently stopping completely.  The
>> mm6242 apparently threw away any effect of the rollover and
>> continued on its merry way thinking it was now the year 1900.  I
>> don't recall if I ever published the dallas semi clock in any
>> event as it has other, far more pressing problems that would
>> prevent its use by me in any design I would ever have
>> contemplated.
>
>The Dallas Semi clock, the SmartWatch, keeps only a 2-digit year,
> and has no hardware problem with the rollover.  Any particular
> driver for it may, of course, have software problems.
>
>Art

That may be, but I'm not sure if the dallas semi used in the B&B was a 
"smartwatch".  It was never called that by Chris that I know of.  And 
it did, or at least the one I had, did have problems with the 
rollover.

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